Dropwizard / JerseyClient ignored JsonProperty when sending http request - jackson

Question

I have two REST services implemented with Dropwizard-0.8.
Both share an API dependency with following POJO:
public class Report{
private String text;
#JsonProperty("t")
public String getText()
{
return text;
}
public void setText(String tx)
{
text = tx;
}
}
My Server has a rest recourse:
#POST
#Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON + ";charset=UTF-8")
#Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN + ";charset=UTF-8")
#Timed
public Response receive(Report dto) {
//do some stuff with dto
}
My Client has a method :
sendReport(report);
with:
private void sendReport(Report report) {
final String uri = "http://localhost:8080/.....";
Response response = null;
try {
response = client.target(uri).request().post(Entity.entity(report, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON), Response.class);
final int status = response.getStatus();
if (status != Status.ACCEPTED.getStatusCode()) {
final StatusType statusInfo = response.getStatusInfo();
throw new SomeException();
}
}
catch (Exception e) {
LOGGER.error(e.getMessage());
}
finally {
if (response != null) {
response.close();
}
}
}
The Client is made in the Dropwizard application class with:
service.client = new JerseyClientBuilder(env).using(conf.getJerseyClient()).withProvider(JacksonJaxbJsonProvider.class).build(getName());
env.jersey().register(service);
Where 'service' is my rest class calling the 'sendReport' method.
Problem
When I call the rest service of my server from a browser or with curl etc it works perfectly as expected with following messagebody:
{"t":"some text for the server"}
But when I run my application to call the rest service I get a 400 "unable to process JSON".
Debugging and the log messages showed me that the application sends the following JSON to my server:
{"text":"some text for the server"}
Which leads to the error that Jackson cant find a property "text".
Why is the JerseyClient ignoring the JsonProperty annotation?

Answer 1

From what I understand you using Entity.entity from jersey which has no idea about the #JsonProperty annotation(which is from jackson library) . What you need to do is do serialisation using a jackson library and give it to post call .